Synonyms: past, past tense
Definition: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
Similar words: tense
Definition: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
Synonyms: past, past times, yesteryear
Definition: the time that has elapsed
Usage: forget the past
Similar words: time
Definition: the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
Synonyms: past
Definition: a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
Usage: reporters dug into the candidate's past
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period
Synonyms: past, preceding, retiring
Definition: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
Usage: a retiring member of the board
Synonyms: past
Definition: earlier than the present time; no longer current
Usage: time past; his youth is past; this past Thursday; the past year
Definition: gone by; or in the past
Usage: two years ago; `agone' is an archaic word for `ago'
Similar words: ancient
Definition: belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Usage: ancient history; ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians; ancient Greece
Similar words: departed, bygone, bypast, gone, foregone
Definition: well in the past; former
Usage: bygone days; dreams of foregone times; sweet memories of gone summers; relics of a departed era
Similar words: medieval, knightly, chivalric
Definition: characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
Usage: chivalric rites; the knightly years
Similar words: former, early, other
Definition: belonging to the distant past
Usage: the early inhabitants of Europe; former generations; in other times
Similar words: old, one-time, onetime, former, erstwhile, quondam, sometime
Definition: belonging to some prior time
Usage: erstwhile friend; our former glory; the once capital of the state; her quondam lover
Similar words: previous, former, late
Definition: (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
Usage: the former president; our late President is still very active; the previous occupant of the White House
Similar words: historic, historical
Definition: belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
Usage: historic victories; historical (or historic) times; a historical character
Similar words: last
Definition: immediately past
Usage: last Thursday; the last chapter we read
Definition: of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
Usage: a late development; their late quarrel; his recent trip to Africa; in recent months; a recent issue of the journal
Similar words: olden
Definition: long past
Usage: olden days
Similar words: other
Definition: recently past
Usage: the other evening
Similar words: prehistoric, prehistorical
Definition: belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
Usage: prehistoric settlements; prehistoric peoples
Similar words: then
Definition: at a specific prior time
Usage: the then president
Definition: in or of the month preceding the present one
Usage: your letter received on the 29th ult